- 21:18 08/12/2008
Russia's agricultural regulator has imposed provisional restrictions on pork imports from Ireland following a contamination risk warning by Irish authorities, a service spokesman said on Monday. 
- 21:02 08/12/2008
Russia must re-establish its solid presence in Africa by actively participating in conflict resolution on the continent, including in Sudan, a Russian senator said on Monday.
- 20:23 08/12/2008
A senior member of Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's parliamentary bloc has denied reports of a coalition deal with the opposition Party of Regions, the UNIAN news agency said on Monday.
- 20:22 08/12/2008
An international conference on security in Northeast Asia will take place in Moscow at the start of next year, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported on Monday.
- 19:33 08/12/2008
Any European missile defense network that includes elements of a U.S. missile shield in Poland and the Czech republic would be aimed against Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 18:34 08/12/2008
A Ukrainian lawmaker who led a commission investigating arms supplies to Georgia plans to sue the defense minister for removing his military titles, the UNIAN news agency reported on Monday.
- 18:30 08/12/2008
- 18:07 08/12/2008
The launch of an Ariane 5 carrier rocket with two telecoms satellites from the Kourou space center in French Guiana has been moved to December 21, French media said on Monday.
- 17:56 08/12/2008
The European Union admitted on Monday that Russia may have been among the countries that received Irish pork exports contaminated with toxic dioxins.
- 16:54 08/12/2008
- 16:17 08/12/2008
A Russian An-124 Condor heavy transport plane has delivered four helicopters along with personnel to Chad to take part in an EU-led mission to support UN peacekeeping efforts in the country, an Air Force spokesman said on Monday.
- 16:04 08/12/2008
The Somali pirates holding the Ukrainian cargo ship the Faina are disgruntled with delays in the payment of a ransom, the Ukrainian ICTV television station said on Monday, citing a pirate.
- 15:18 08/12/2008
- 15:17 08/12/2008
Belarus has destroyed its remaining 15 Strela-2M portable air defense systems under an agreement with a European security body, the Defense Ministry said on Monday.
- 14:57 08/12/2008
- 14:43 08/12/2008
Russia's GDP will grow by 1-2% in the best case scenario and could decline by 1-4% in the worst-case scenario next year, the chairman of the MDM-Bank board of directors said on Monday.
- 13:31 08/12/2008
Two major Georgian opposition parties are to merge and demand early parliamentary and presidential polls in the wake of August's war with Russia, a Russian daily said on Monday, citing an opposition leader.
- 13:28 08/12/2008
A new round of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue opened in Beijing on Monday despite the North's refusal to recognize Japanese participation.
- 12:28 08/12/2008
The Russian government has drafted a rescue package of 150 billion rubles ($5.4 billion) for the country's defense and industrial complex amid the ongoing global financial crisis, a business paper reported on Monday.
